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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.

"Positive" textbooks ready in time for the new school year in Bosnia

Publishing date: 3 July 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues
SARAJEVO, 3 July, 2003- Students in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) will return to revised national subject textbooks in classrooms in September, thanks to the efforts of the re-established Textbook Review Commission this spring. The Commission, which...

Croatian representatives study Portuguese community policing methods

Publishing date: 1 July 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues, Policing
ZAGREB, 1 July 2003- A central Croatian police chief and a Croatian journalist have just returned from a two-weeks' training course in Portugal focused on its well-developed community policing programmes and the way media and police interact...

OSCE Mission Head lays out five conditions for the rule of law

Publishing date: 30 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
BELGRADE, 30 June 2003- In an article published this week in Serbia's Nin magazine, the OSCE Head of Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, Ambassador Maurizio Massari outlined the importance of the rule of law as a cornerstone of a democratic society...

OSCE trains Armenian police on countering domestic violence

Publishing date: 27 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Policing
YEREVAN, 27 June 2003- An OSCE-organized training programme to enable Armenian police officers to more efficiently combat domestic violence began this week in the country's capital, Yerevan. "Domestic violence is an infringement of a person's...

International agencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina warn that housing officials will fine double occupants

Publishing date: 26 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
SARAJEVO, 26 June 2003- The international agencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina involved in the Property Law Implementation Plan- the Office of the High Representative, the OSCE Mission, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...

Expert meeting develops recommendations for reform of Montenegro's anti-trafficking legislation

Publishing date: 25 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Human rights
PODGORICA, 25 June 2003- International and national legal experts met in Podgorica, Serbia and Montenegro, this week to develop recommendations for the reform of anti-trafficking provisions in Montenegro's criminal law...

OSCE meeting promotes co-operation on dealing with labor migration in Central Asia

Publishing date: 24 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 24 June 2003- Government representatives and high-ranking officials from four Central Asian states and the Russian Federation are meeting in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, today in an effort to improve co-operation in dealing with...